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was the start of the record.

It wasn't planned, it just--

just was total freedom and it

rocked and I had so much fun...

and just kept going,

I didn't turn back.

NARRATOR (V.O.):

The career-defining album...

proved to be a monumental

success, with sales exceeding

12 million copies.

I was so nervous before this

album came out in the States.

I mean, I didn't know what was

gonna happen, but I was so proud

of it and so happy.

I guess that's why I was so

nervous, because I was

just like...

"Oh, my god, this means

so much to me.

"If people don't like it,

I'm gonna be crushed

and I'm gonna die."

I had had my dad on the phone

for a week, and he was getting

pretty sick of me...

but it feels really good to know

you took the chance...

and it kind of worked...

and I kind of get to tell

everybody, "I told you so,"

and that's always good for me.

I like that kind of stuff.

NARRATOR (V.O.):

After the staggering success

of "Misunderstood"...

Pink had entered into the

rarified realms inhabited only

by the world's biggest stars.

Every single illusion that I had

is now completely shattered...

it's nothing that you think it

is, it's not what it's cracked

up to be.

It's, you know, when I was

little and I was like, "Okay,

I'm gonna be a singer"...

I just figured that was all

you do, you just get onstage

and sing...

and everybody loves you

and throws flower petals

at your feet.

I didn't know that singing was

like five and a half percent

of the whole thing.

I didn't know that there was

business involved.

I didn't know that there

was politics, because

there's a whole lot.

NARRATOR (V.O.):

Pink is recognized for her

"tough girl" image...

but it's always been the music

that mattered most.

The rocker takes no prisoners

when it comes to writing

lyrics...

and her tempestuous on-off

relationship with professional

motocross racer Carey Hart...

provides the material

for many of her songs.

PINK (O.S.):

Guys think I'm a man-basher,

but that's not it.

It's like, I'm a woman,

I happen to like men...

and if they didn't play games

with me, I wouldn't have

anything to write about...

so, a guy can easily take the

song and sing it to a woman...

because that's his side, but I'm

on my side, you know, you can't

expect me to be on your side.

Pink's phases haven't been

as multifarious as other

chart pop divas...

there has been a certain

softening and mellowing

over the years...

not least because she's gotten

married and she's had a child.

NARRATOR (V.O.):

The unconventional couple met

in 2001, married in 2006...

split up in 2008,

and reunited in 2009.

Marriage really doesn't change

much for us...

because we don't look at it

in the conventional way.

We've been together for a long

time, so... we're good friends,

we're happy.

He's a motocross driver and they

met in 2001 at one of the

motocross events...

and they sort of dated

for a couple of years

and she proposed to him...

at one of his events, holding up

a big card when he's going over

one of the jumps saying...

"Will you marry me?" and she

flipped it over and said,

"I'm serious" on the other side.

The thing about Carey Hart,

who's a motocross guy...

it was difficult for them

to see each other.

We've both been on tour the

entire time we've been

together...

which has been about

four and half, five years...

so it's very much like being

single with, um...

with random hotel visits

all over the world, it's nice.

NARRATOR (V.O.):
The Pink-Hart

relationship proved to be an

unorthodox union.

They had the short separation

and then got back together.

Pink's marriage is kind

of weird.

The whole relationship was on,

it was off, it was on,

it was off.

They got married, they split up,

they had a baby, they got

married again.

That's life, isn't it?

I had a lot left over

from my last break-up...

with my current husband,

baby daddy, so it's just kind

of all over the place.

It's kind of amazing that

it's endured through all the

different twists and turns...

and now he appears in every one

of her videos and things

couldn't be going better...

that said, they'll probably

split up next week.

They're probably gonna be one of

those couples that just have

that kind of rocky relationship.

They're both quite fiery people,

so it's always gonna happen.

I don't think maturity has

anything to do with marriage.

If anything, marriage makes

you more immature...

especially in the way

that you fight.

Um...

They have a child called Willow,

so I think they seem to be

pretty happy now...

I think they sorted

themselves out.

It's a responsibility

to yourself first, who you

want to be as a person...

before you can be a parent

or as you're becoming a parent.

If it's a whoops,

then you're like...

"Oh, sh*t, I have a lot of work

to do on myself before this

child starts listening to me."

NARRATOR (V.O.):

Pink welcomed

her first child in 2011.

For a star who has made a

career out of writing songs

about angst and frustrations...

the arrival of her daughter

has melted her edges.

I think the way that Willow has

inspired my music is that--

The easiest way I can explain it

is I used to be very dramatic

and I'm not at all anymore.

And I used to wake up and be

like, "Oh, f***, what do

I have to do today?"

And, "I don't feel good,

maybe I have cancer."

I used to just be really dark

and now I'm like...

I wake up and check her pulse

and make sure she's not having a

temperature and then we dance...

and we dance and we dance

and we dance...

and we go on bike rides

and we dance some more

and everything's a song...

and it's just a lot more fun.

Seeing her the other night...

there is a little,

subtle difference.

She is still kick-ass, rock

momma but there is a difference.

She was singing "The Perfect

Song", which has her words

in it...

and she was joking onstage

and saying she was about

to sing it...

and because Willow wasn't

around, she was really gonna

kick out...

but she says, "Oh, but the

mother instinct in me."

She said she looked around the

crowd and she could she those

young kids in the audience...

and she was just like,

"I can't bring myself to do it."

So-- and she wouldn't have done

that a few years ago.

I don't believe being a mother

has necessarily softened her...

I think being a parent has made

her a bit more open-minded...

your goals, ambitions,

ways of human life will change

when you're a parent...

and I think that it's fair to

say that's had an influence...

on what she kind of does

and how she does it...

and how many tours she does,

and things like that.

Motherhood's softened

her edge a bit...

because she's gotten more

feminine in her looks...

and she looks comfortable

in her own skin...

which she wasn't to start off

with and that was part of her

initial, radical thing...

but now she's just a bit

happier, I think.

It's just about-- more so,

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